The Archive · 1939

Meet Empress

French Canadians Lavish In Welcome Prepared for Royal Visitors SPECIAL TO TUE "N.C — Quèbec, May 14

Citie and towns throughout Canada are bedogged and decorated for the cagerly-awaited arrival of the King and Queen. Although the Empress of Australia has been further delayed, the Canadian destroyers Skeena and Saguenay have gone to the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to meet the vessel and to escort her here.

As the "White Empress" steams up the St. Lawrence, Their Majesties will have their nest taste of the Royal welcome which Canada has been preparing for months.

Long chains of giant bonfire be lit, the bells of riverside churches will peal, and guns will thunder a Royal Salute as the li Wolfe's Cove and King, the Canadian Prime Mi welcomes Their Majesties abear Trench Canada's p are equally lavish. Two gigantic crown which will be illuminated at night, k the banks of t ver public buildings are swathed flags. Even very small shops are displaying portraits of Their Majesties.

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